I understand your point but if it’s obvious, it’s likely easily-guessable and although you are thinking in terms of regaining access to your account, it’s just as important to keep other people from being able to gain access to your account by either guessing it or using social engineering to retrieve the answer.
I’ve used a password manager for many years (1password then bitwarden) and have never had an “oh shit” moment. I use a master password that I’ll never forget, have never needed a hint and have never lost or corrupted a password. I feel that as long as you treat your password manager as something that’s important and deserves your careful management, you’ll be a-ok. I have never once had an issue that was created by the manager itself.
Making the MP hint obvious makes it pointless, in regards to the security to every password you have stored.
That depends, would it work as well as our efforts of banning guns and drugs?
Meta and everything they do and stand for is why I chose Signal over Whatsapp.
I consume content here via all/new so my block list is used to make sure I don’t see users, communities and instances that keep me from enjoying my time here. It’s lengthy but does the job well.
Perhaps it’s more complex than a single reason but I believe all scenarios would most likely fall into the bucket of “things were that easy for them and they lack the critical thought to realize that it’s not that easy for everyone else”.
Boomers were buying houses and cars with only one person working, retiring at a decent age and living on mostly social security.
Generational wealth has ensured that their offspring would never have to struggle.
Some settled into a job that truly does pay for all their necessities.
etc., ad nauseum.
Basically, it’s a throwaway statement and I don’t think anyone should lose any sleep feeling like they need to further discuss it with them or defend themselves. They are clearly incapable of stepping outside of their knee-jerk assumptions to find out if they’re accurate or not.
Are you looking for an alternative software solution or a community-driven repository of information about everything?
Not for any reason having to do with security or usability, 1P had always been great for me in those areas. The reason I left them is because, while I was fine being unimportant in regards to their future improvement plans, when they wanted to charge me 30% more for new features that only benefited their business users, I was unwilling to stay with them. This article is a good example of what I mean. An entire update post regarding all the changes for business users and for the personal user? It goes on to say “don’t worry, your experience won’t be negatively impacted”. I will never agree to that kind of price hike for what is basically “we won’t make your experience shittier”.
https://1password.com/blog/a-unified-future-whats-next-for-our-end-user-experience